Wikipedia - Ekaterine Gorgodze
Ekaterine Gorgodze (Georgian: ეკატერინე გორგოძე, romanized: ek'at'erine gorgodze, pronounced [ekʼatʼeɾine ɡoɾɡodze]; born 3 December 1991) is a Georgian professional tennis player. On 23 May 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 108. On 15 August 2022, she peaked at No. 43 in the doubles rankings.
Gorgodze has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus four doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with 18 singles and 37 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Since her debut for Georgia Fed Cup team in 2007, Gorgodze has accumulated a win–loss record of 18–19 in singles and 8–7 in doubles (overall 26–26), as of August 2024.
History
Singles
She made her WTA Tour singles debut 2012 in Baku as a wildcard. In March 2021, she qualified for the Miami Open making her WTA 1000 debut but lost to Anna Kalinskaya. In April, she entered the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix as a lucky loser, making her WTA 500 debut but lost to Angelique Kerber. She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2021 French Open, after qualifying for the main draw. Nine years after her WTA Tour debut, Gorgodze recorded her first win at the 2021 WTA Poland Open in Gdynia, Poland over lucky loser Anastasia Zakharova, after qualifying into the main draw. She then defeated Varvara Lepchenko to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal.
She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 108 on 23 May 2022. In June 2022, she entered directly for the first time the Wimbledon Championships, making her second major main draw.
Ranked No. 426 at the 2024 Țiriac Foundation Trophy in Bucharest, she qualified for the main draw and reached her first WTA 125 semifinal defeating Simona Waltert, Aliona Bolsova and Marie Benoît. As a result, she moved close to 100 positions up in the singles rankings to No. 329, on 16 September 2024.
Doubles
She has won two WTA Tour doubles titles: at the 2021 Transylvania Open and at the 2022 Budapest Grand Prix.